The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-01-03

Pink-eye has made its appearance
among the strect-car horses in Buffalo
N. Y, and II Is feared that IL will DO
come epidemic.
Fifteen bears. averaging in weigh
800 pounds each were killed by one
farmer near Entreple, Canada, during
the month of November.
rhe board of trade at Chattanooga
Tenn, has decided to do everything I'D
its power to encourage the building o
railroads in that neighborhood.
The largest fish ever taken at the
Isles OF Shoals was recently caught BY
Miss Rose Mllminc of New York, and
was a halibut weighing III pounds
In Calvert county, Maryland, recent.
", a horse while hitched to a hearse
took sick and d ell. and the people
haven't got through talking about i
yet.
According to the report of the New
York bureau of labor statistics there
were more than 1000 strikes in that
state the last year, rs against 3oo ID
1885.
The latest theory of n preventive
against sea-sickness is to ride up and
down on elevators rs frequently rs
convenient for several days before en-
barking.
A North East Md, citizen has had
coffin made similar to the one in which
Gen. Grant was buried. and has re
quested his family to inter him in I
after his decease.
During the night of Sunday, Nov 81
the thermometer went down to y be
low zero at Fort Mcleod. Manitoba,
and snow drifts accumulated to depth
of three and four feet.
The relatives of William Ringo, who
died in Newport, o., in 1884, are trying
TO break his WILL in which he bequcath'
ed 100000 to six adopted children.
Ringo died bachelor
The m II owners along the Pcnobscoi
river, Maine, have signel an agree
ment to hereafter provide other means
of disposing of their sawdust besides
dumping it into the river.
A PENNSYLVANIA coal operator has
employed competent surgeon to lect
ure to his miners on the method OF pro
cedure in the many emergencies tina
| arise from nine accidents.
In Marshall, Tenn, one day recently,
n mountainecr ma led letter bearing II
confederate postage-siamp; another Il
revenue stamp taken from a matchbox.
/ Both were seat to the dead-letter Office
| to be embalmed.
zee Hing was recently buried in a
! Pittsburgh. Pa, cemetery rs Chris
tian. He was probably the first Celes'
tial in America whose funeral rites were
unaccompanied bv the peculiar formal =
ties of strictly Chinese burial
In Boston n curious holiday novelty
is call bell for desks and dining TIA
bles. Ii is made of u cocoanut with a
pigs head In metal in front and metal
pigs tail behind When one rings the
tail the pig grunts out n succession OF
mufiled bell strokes.
AT President Clevelands privat,
table wine is not served, unless guests
arc present who have it habitually, ant
as for beer. two dozen bottles suffice
the white house for year. The presi'
dent dimes at Z o'clock and smokes one
cigar after dinner, which Is all he al
lows himself; he takes it walking in the
upper corridor.
A Santa Rosa, Cal, citizen recently
purchased can Of honey and OF
open ng it found such stat, of affair
that he wrote the following to the mcr.
chant from whom it was purchased
"Sir. That can of honey | got wa,
not fit for anything. 1t had a snake IL
it, and the snake had swallowed som'
mice, and the whole thing wa, miXe|
up"
A Cincinnati critic witnessed the re-
cent operate performances in that city
and saws: Dress suits were neither d'
rigueur nor dc trop. but the major por
ton of the gentlemen in the auditorium
wore them. Late comers were numer
Gus, but the usual accompaniment o
soueaky shoes was silenced by til,
heavy mating that covered the floor o
the auditorium.
At recent spelling-match in Ches
hire, Conn. selected pupils from al
the schools were tested on thei
knowledge Of fifty pages of the spelling
book. AT the end of an hour lively,
competitors were left and the com
mittce deserted the book and tried t.
floor them with anything they coul'
think of, but were unable to put dow
single one. The prizes were the
distributed among the twelve. T Ifi
The homestead and farm Of the Hig
lev family. of Castlcton, Vt, have beef
in their possession since 1873, when th'
first family by that name came from
Connecticut and settled there. TIL